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Philippines workers try to arrange a tarpaulin Wednesday from a billboard that collapsed on top of a house south of Manila due to strong winds from Typhoon Conson. (Associated Press)
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Residents push a stalled passenger "jeepney" Wednesday just hours after a typhoon blew through Manila and other provinces in the Philippines. The Philippines' first typhoon of the year, called Conson, had barreled toward the country's east coast Tuesday, prompting flight and ferry cancellations, school closures and warnings of floods and landslides. (Associated Press)
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Residents wade through a flooded street in Las Pinas, Philippines, south of Manila, on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, hours after typhoon Conson lashed Manila and nearby areas. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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A Muslim Filipino fixes the roof of his shanty after strong winds from typhoon Conson tore down several shanties around a mosque in Manila on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. The first typhoon to lash the Philippines this year killed at least 26 people and left some 38 others missing. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Workers place a makeshift bridge on one of the beams of a collapsed crane brought down by strong winds from typhoon Conson on the South Luzon Expressway in suburban Manila on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. The Philippines' first typhoon of the year prompted flight and ferry cancellations, school closures, and warnings of floods and landslides. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Filipinos try to arrange a tarpaulin from a billboard that collapsed on top of a house because of strong winds from typhoon Conson in Muntinlupa, Philippines, south of Manila, on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. The first typhoon to lash the Philippines this year killed at least 26 people and left at least 38 others missing. No one was injured during this incident. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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A barefoot mother pushes a tricycle with her children on board as they look for a dry place to spend the night after their shanty collapsed in the onslaught of typhoon Conson on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, at Taytay township, Rizal province, east of Manila. The Philippines' first typhoon of the year prompted flight and ferry cancellations, school closures, and warnings of floods and landslides. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Residents wade through a flooded street in Las Pinas, Philippines, south of Manila, on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, hours after typhoon Conson lashed the Manila area and other provinces. The Philippines' first typhoon of the year prompted flight and ferry cancellations, school closures, and warnings of floods and landslides. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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A worker walks past damage brought by strong winds from typhoon Conson at a roof-deck basketball court in suburban Manila on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. The Philippines' first typhoon of the year prompted flight and ferry cancellations, school closures, and warnings of floods and landslides. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Residents fix their shanties along a coastal road after typhoon Conson hit Las Pinas, Philippines, south of Manila, on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. The Philippines' first typhoon of the year prompted flight and ferry cancellations, school closures, and warnings of floods and landslides. AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Residents fix their shanties along a coastal road after typhoon Conson hit Las Pinas, Philippines, south of Manila, on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. The Philippines' first typhoon of the year prompted flight and ferry cancellations, school closures, and warnings of floods and landslides. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Residents push a stalled passenger jeepney in Las Pinas, Philippines, hours after typhoon Conson lashed Manila and other provinces on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. The Philippines' first typhoon of the year prompted flight and ferry cancellations, school closures, and warnings of floods and landslides. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Residents of Las Pinas, Philippines, south of Manila, wade through a flooded street after typhoon Conson hit the country on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. The Philippines' first typhoon of the year prompted flight and ferry cancellations, school closures, and warnings of floods and landslides. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Residents wade through a flooded street at Las Pinas, south of Manila, on Wednesday, July 14, 2010, hours after typhoon Conson lashed through Manila and other provinces in the Philippines. The first typhoon to lash the Philippines this year has toppled trees and power lines, causing widespread blackouts, canceling flights, classes and suspending work in some government offices. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Vessels monitor oil burning near the Deepwater Horizon spill on Tuesday. BP officials placed a containment cap over the leak, hoping the oil flow will slow, and said BP will begin gradual tests to see if the cap can stop oil from spewing into the sea. (Associated Press)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, July 13, 2010, people gather around damaged houses after the flooding in Xiaohe, southwest China's Yunnan Province. Landslides slammed into three mountain hamlets in western China early Tuesday, killing 17 people and leaving 44 missing, while crews drained a fast-rising reservoir in another part of the country following heavy rains. The landslides swept through three different areas before dawn, state media said. In the worst-hit town of Xiaohe in Yunnan province, four died and rescuers were searching for 42 others, the official provincial newspaper Yunnan Daily reported on its website. (AP Photo/Xinhua)
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Shipping containers are stacked at the Port of Miami on Thursday, July 8, 2010. The U.S. trade deficit widened in May to the highest level in 18 months as a rebounding economy pushed up demand for imports of foreign-made cars, computers and clothing. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says deep-water drilling must be suspended until investigators can determine a cause for the April 20 explosion that led to millions of barrels of oil being released into the Gulf of Mexico, a problem that is ongoing. (Associated Press)
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Supervisor Wade Falany handles a rope Monday while preparing for oil-skimming operations on the deck of the Pacific Responder skimming vessel in the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana. The vessel sailed from its home port in the San Francisco Bay Area to the Gulf of Mexico to assist in the containment of oil leaking from the broken Deepwater Horizon well. (Associated Press)
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Menmen Villose is one of thousands of earthquake homeless who sought refuge at the Corail-Cesselesse camp, but has walked into a fight over undeveloped land where urban planners envision the "new Haiti." (Associated Press)
